Your livestock laws for Kentucky are available at the website listed below. This is the Equine Law and Horsemanship Safety website, and it is an excellent resource for statutes, laws and articles related to horses. A partial example of your Kentucky law is pasted below: 256.010. Definitions (1) "Lawful fence" means: (a) A strong and sound fence, four (4) feet high, so close that cattle cannot creep through, made of rails, or plank, or wire and plank, or iron, or hedge, or stone or brick; or (b) A ditch three (3) feet deep and three (3) feet broad, with a hedge two (2) feet high or a rail, plank, stone, smooth or barbed wire or brick fence two and one-half (2 1/2) feet high on the margin of the ditch, if the fence is so close that cattle cannot creep through; or (c) A well-constructed gate four (4) feet high so close that cattle cannot creep through, made of wood slats and wood framing or made of metal slats and framing either or both, forming a part of a fence otherwise lawful and entering upon a public road or highway or entering upon a private or public road or passway over the land of another adjacent owner.
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What are the livestock laws for fencing horses in Kentucky?
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